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Providing names is of fundamental importance in biology because names enable us to communicate and exchange information about organisms. In fact, in the absence of names, biology has nothing to work with the taxa. Names, therefore are not only tags or labels, rather they are the principal 'books' by which information about an organism is stored. It is obvious that no progress in the utilization of local plants and their products for economic exploitation ...
The present volume is a part of the NAGI Compendiums on State of Natural and Human Resources of India. The basic objective of editing this volume is to collate the recent research articles on human resources and comprehend the diversity of issues, which have become more relevant in today's world, especially after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD-94), held at Rio de Janeiro. Needless to say that the studies on human resources ...
The present study examines a century's (1891-1991) change in female's marriage age in different states of India, and explores the regional variations within each of the major states for the recent decades. It studies correlates like education and work, and social and cultural factors like religion, caste and tribe status in influencing female’s marriage age. The study reveals the diversity of marriage age and marriage practices but a clear convergence is ...
Global environmental changes are occurring in ways fundamentally different than at any other time in our history. Experts say that virtually all of the earth's ecosystems have been significantly transformed through human actions, and that 60 percent of them have already been degraded. Population growth, movement, density and resource consumption are considered to be the main driver and multiplier of many environmental problems not only in India but all over the ...